It's funny how much pancake butts are in fashion right now. I see tons of butts on the internet, not because I'm chasing illicit content, but because I'm looking for cool editorials or looking at fashion stuff. I'm noticing this total shift in popularity from super polished hyper-white photos to very vintage, haphazard-feeling Polaroids. It's been happening for a while, I guess I'm just surprised it's gained so much momentum. More often than not, the subject of photos shot in this style is a waify woman with messy hair, looking away from camera, pouting... with her butt. Her pancake butt.
Oh, cool. A flat butt. How unrelatable to this Mexican born curvy-hipped person. (Pear shaped, they say!)
As someone with a gigantic butt I've known a few pairs of very uncomfortable pants that have somehow given my fat the appearance of pancake butt, and let me tell you, "it's not pretty. Not to me at least!" says the girl with the personal blog. So why the appeal? Maybe it's just because pancake butts have the appearance of super long legs because your thighs seem to stop at your belly button? Maybe its because it reminds us all of our moms? Yeesh. Can a woman have an Oedipal Complex? Let's stop this train right here.
Back to the aesthetic: don't get me wrong, it's a lovely one. This whole happy accident, grainy film, weird poses stuff. It's very retro in an unfocused drug-tripping way, but I like it especially because it embraces imperfection (aka, reality), which I guess is part and parcel to pancake butt.
Collage by me. Source images include Madewell shot of Constance Jablonski's pancake butt, this, and this.